The date when this change was going to happen was initially December 4 but due to some development problems the date became December 5.

So from December 5 any domain name that receives a bid and is more than 30 days after the expiration date is moved to this holding account.

To make it simpler, any domain that expired on November 5 and on-wards is guaranteed delivery. These are domain name auctions that ended or are ending on December 10 2017 and later.

It is not possible for a domain name owner to renew these domains and thus the auction refunds problem ends here.

The problem that remains is the delivery date. Expired domain name auctions end on day 35 after expiration. Even though the owner can’t renew these domains when you pay for a domain name you do not currently see it immediately in your account. You will receive the domain name on day 42. That is exactly as before with the significant difference that you are now guaranteed delivery of this domain name. GoDaddy is working on fixing this and have the domain delivered on payment.

Paul Nicks, VP & GM GoDaddy Aftermarket, said that “Part of the release problems was the launch of instant-xfer for bought domains, so we rolled that part back and are still working on making it work correctly. So, for now, all names bought will be delivered on day 42 post-expiry.”.

Finally you might notice that domains that are in expired domain name auctions display a blank white page. Type any expired domain name you are bidding on and you will be redirected to a blank white page with a url that looks like this: http://www.******.***/RVjQZ/.

The webpage only has a javascript that is possibly tracking traffic. GoDaddy said this is a bug they are trying to fix.

About Konstantinos Zournas

Konstantinos studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London and lives in Athens, Greece. He loves domains and building websites. He is online since 1995, learned about html in 1996 and got into domains in 2002. He started the OnlineDomain.com blog in 2012.

Good. That means I “should” receive a crypto domain that I won at GoDaddy Auctions on December 11th.
It will be better once we receive the domain upon payment. But until then, we are all used to receiving a domain on the 42nd day anyway.
At least now we are guaranteed to receive our domain. Hopefully.